C64 Longplay: Hocus Focus

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Published on February 10, 2014 11:44:42 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_NhZN0-rE

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Elite (1984)

Duration: 3:23:47

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SHORT VERSION INFO: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/cgi-bin/displaypage.pl?issue=085&page=010&magazine=zzap

Originally released by Quiksilva Software in 1986 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. Program and music by David Whittaker. (CLICK FOR MORE¬)

I recorded this while playing for over 8 and a half hours of gameplay, half of which was figuring-out the layout of the levels and making notes. Save states and occasional time-freezing used.

There are 7 floors in each level in which you need to collect 32 pieces of a photo. You are able to carry 16 at a time, so you have to make 2 journeys to the caves and the darkroom at the far-left corner for each level.

If this bores you, as it did me after a while, and I don't expect many to watch over 3 hours of gameplay, you can skip to the finished pictures on the timeline, below.

0:00 Level 1
(below are the time-points for each assembled picture)
15:37 Level 1
29:14 Level 2
41:52 Level 3
53:50 Level 4
1:05:12 Level 5
1:18:48 Level 6
1:30:00 Level 7
1:41:30 Level 8
1:52:40 Level 9
2:03:20 Level 10
2:18:00 Level 11
2:32:38 Level 12
2:44:00 Level 13
2:55:45 Level 14
3:05:23 Level 15
3:23:20 Level 16 and Ending

ORIGINAL STORYLINE: (more silliness can be found on adverts via www.worldofspectrum.org)

JEREMY "THE GLOWING PUNK"
- The Truth Revealed

Jeremy was a YOP'S trainee and wasn't the Daily Shocker's real photographer.
Hacker Harry, the editor, needed a camera clown and so Jeremy got the assignment.

His task was to get pictures of all the Potty Professor's inventions before the opposition found out. The editor sent him to the hidden labs under Hyde Park and he had to make the best of it (though I've never seen palm trees there before).

The Hideout was protected by a number of genetic mutants, developed by the Professor in his spare time. All Jeremy had to do was walk into one of the detector devices and out came the aggressive freak. When he touched Jeremy, his sword and film were ruined making him return to the lab for more.

All the Professors inventions were hidden in the various objects around his suberranean cave system. Jeremy had to check each one before taking the pics. Some contained other mutants that stole his film and wasted even more valuable time. It was enough to convince Jeremy that the anti-vivisectionists had a good case.

So Jeremy soon found out that he was constantly needing to return to the darkroom for more film. The problem was how to get up from the lower levels. After about half an hour jeremy came across a key and found that if he got close to the fan units under each hole that he could turn them on and they would then carry him heavenward.

However, ther wasn't just one invention there were 16 of them, each taking over 20 shots on the film. Also what nobody told Jeremy was that the whole cavern was radioactive and the longer he stayed in the cave the more radiation his body absorbed. The Professor had a nifty little gadget to gauge this problem and it recorded likely contamination. A reading of over 20 suggests difficulties and a reading of 30 spells death by genetic mutation.

That was the beginning of Jeremy's new career - a star of stage and screen - the only act in the world that wouldn't need stage lighting.

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